Word: enthusiastic
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...some idea of their rights and duties as citizens, - for they must some time become citizens, good or bad, - that is not to be thought of. That would be an unheard-of piece of audacity, a wild undertaking, the thought of which none but the brain of a wicked enthusiast could ever have entertained...
...number of real students has been steadily increasing. Until lately, indeed, the improvement in the tone of the classes was far more than would have been suspected from the columns of the College paper, but within a year the articles that have been published would please the most solitary enthusiast for study. Few of these articles, however, are written by Seniors and Juniors; by far the larger part by the Sophomores. This shows what quite a large number of writers hold as their own opinion, and it shows more than this; for not only the authors in writing thought...